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Feb 15, 2008 · Steve Gerber, a cutting-edge comic-book writer and creator best-known for Howard the Duck, the ill-tempered, cigar-smoking Marvel Comics character whose adventures satirized American life in the ...
Feb 14, 2008 · Steve Gerber, the St. Louis-born creator of Howard the Duck and Omega the Unknown, died last Saturday in Las Vegas. The cause was complications from pulmonary fibrosis. He was 60.
Feb 10, 2008 · Steve Gerber graduated from the University of Missouri with a degree in communications and took a job in advertising. To keep himself sane, he wrote bizarre short stories such as "Elves Against Hitler," "Conversion in a Terminal Subway," and "...And the Birds Hummed Dirges!" He noticed acquaintance Roy Thomas working at Marvel, and Thomas sent ...
Pure Good vs. Pure Evil, for example, is a conflict which rarely occurs in the real world. It’s a set of circumstances that doesn’t exist” (Steve Gerber, as interviewed by David Anthony, Kraft in Foom #15, September 1976). The fate of the typical human being in the superhero book is almost inevitably a traumatic one.
Oct 27, 2015 · Back in his own comic, Man-Thing haunts the edges of a tale of swamp survival, which is an amazingly intense character piece [7/10]. The Enchanter's Apprentice (Fear 19, M-T 1). This is Gerber's Man-Thing at its best as we return to fantasy realms, demon invasions, and weird, wacky travels through other places.
Apr 21, 2021 · Capping off the book is the indelible cartoon/photorealistic shading of Kevin Nowlan in Gerber’s final Man-Thing story, 2012’s Infernal Man-Thing. Written in the ’80s, shortly before his very storied battle with Marvel, the book was finished and released posthumously. It presents a fitting swan song for Steve and Manny’s relationship ...
Feb 14, 2008 · Yes, Howard was the duck who ran for President against Jimmy Carter in 1976: "Get Down, America!" - and, yes, Howard was the subject of another lawsuit, when his creator, Steve Gerber sued Marvel ...
